Late last season the local dock flies came aboard. On the way out I set the auto pilot as usual and pulled up the bumpers and secured all lines. As I returned to the helm I was heckled by the passengers. "We can do that for you, show off, ohhh an auto pilot" and so forth. So we sailed up...
During the return leg from Bermuda I encountered some pretty heavy weather. At the point of losing control of the boat I decided to drop the main and deploy the drogue. Under normal conditions dropping the main would entail removing the main halyard from the sail, carefully walk it to the...